I’m highly delighted to be able to report that my story, Fear of the Music, will appear in Something Remains, the Joel Lane tribute anthology that is due to be published at Fantasycon in September.

Most of the contributors utilised notes or scraps of a story that Joel had made but never completed. The results are hopefully a fitting testament to a man that was loved and respected in the genre, both for his superb body of work as a writer of the weird tale, and for his support and encouragement of the indie press.

Joel was one of my literary heroes, and was kind enough to read and provide a blurb for my debut collection, Peel Back the Sky, when it was published in 2012. He sad passing was far too soon. The profits from Something Remains will benefit Diabetes UK, a condition from which Joel suffered. Here is the mouthwatering table of contents –

Foreword by Peter Coleborn

Introduction by Pauline E. Dungate

Joel by Chris Morgan (Verse)

Not Dispossessed: A Few Words on Joel Lane’s Early Published Works by David A. Sutton (Essay)

Everybody Hates a Tourist by Tim Lebbon

The Conscience of the Circuit by Nicholas Royle (Essay)

The Missing by John Llewellyn Probert

Charmed Life by Simon Avery

Antithesis by Alison Littlewood

Dark Furnaces by Chris Morgan

The Inner Ear by Marion Pitman (Verse)

Broken Eye by Gary McMahon

Stained Glass by John Grant

Threadbare by Jan Edwards

The Dark above the Fair by Terry Grimwood

Grey Children by David A. Sutton

The Twin by James Brogden

Lost by Pauline Morgan (Verse)

Through the Floor by Gary Couzens

Fear of the Music by Stephen Bacon

Bad Faith by Thana Niveau

Window Shopping by David Mathew

Clan Festor by Liam Garriock

Sweet Sixteen by Adam Millard

Buried Stars by Simon Macculloch

And Ashes in Her Hair by Simon Bestwick

The Pleasure Garden by Rosanne Rabinowitz

Joel Lane, Poet by Chris Morgan (Essay)

The Reach of Children by Mike Chinn

The Men Cast by Shadows by Mat Joiner

The Winter Garden by Pauline E. Dungate

Natural History by Allen Ashley

The Second Death by Ian Hunter

The Bright Exit by Sarah Doyle (Verse)

Blanche by Andrew Hook

The Body Static by Tom Johnstone

You Give Me Fever by Paul Edwards

The Other Side by Lynda E. Rucker

Of Loss and of Life: Joel Lane’s Essays on the Fantastic by Mark Valentine (Essay)